Our Fifth Day in London

You know the biggest reason i keep a blog is for me. i have the worst memory. Because i didn't write down what we did each day I am already forgetting. Sometimes i think they blog can seem superficial because the outside world is looking in. I have been thinking about making it private because why bore the rest of the world with the things you do in your life. But i think it is fun for my grand kids so I do it I apologize to the rest of the world.

But back to trying to think what i did the fifth day. By my pictures I think we went to Hamilton court and Windsor Palace. This was actually one of my favorate things to do. I loved the little village around Windsor Palace. I loved loved the gardens of Hamilton. You can see them on my garden blog. Ok it going to take me a couple of days to figure our what we did day six

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Fourth Day in England

We visited the City of Canterbury. We found a plaque in the cathedral of one of our relatives. I had to take a picture. It was a charming city. We also visited the Leek Castle which I was amazed how good of shape it was in. I guess it has been lived in as recent as the last 15 years. It has a mont around the castle just what I envision a castle to be like. We also visited the Cliffs of Dover which meet up against the English Channel. It was another fun day.








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Third day in England

We went to York on our Third Day. We rode the train in First Class, I was surprised to find it very delightful. The scenery was lush and green with rolling hills very beautiful. We had done some geneolgy before we left and found that on our four grand parents line we had traced their lines back to the mid 1600's where they all had came from England. We found our selves wondering why they would want to leave such a beautiful country. York is was built in the 13th century. They built a wall around the city. The above picture was taken while we were walking on the wall. It was fun to look down into the back yards and see the beautiful gardens. They had fun shops and boutiques there we found a few treasures to take back. We took a hop on hop off bus tour that was to last until 1900 hours and we were to be back to the train station. However the buses quit running and 1700 hours and we found ourselves stranded with no way to get back to the station. It took us a while to figure that out. But we walked in the rain and had a good time. We finally ran into the area they parked the buses and asked that someone take us to the train station. We paid them 10 pounds and they were very happy to do so. We found that the people in England are very kind and we enjoyed them very much.


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Bike Helmets

What a week! Go to Brandi blog and read about my sweet Grandson. Stockton had an accident this week that was a nail bitter for a while. We are so thankful he is going to be okay.

I just want to remind everyone out there to please wear their helmets! I know they are a bit uncomfortable but ask Stockton how uncomfortable he is today and how much he will miss out on this summer and he had his helmet on. It was the unprotected parts of the fact that got hurt. The helmet was in take. I am so grateful that even though his mom said he could only ride the mountain bike for 5 minutes he took the time to put his helmet on! We sure love him and want him to get better soon!



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First two days in England

The first day in London we spent on getting our prepaid phone cards. It was quit a deal. We bought a phone for 14 pounds (approx. $21 us) and put 30 pounds on them. It only cost 6 pence a min to call home (9 cents us). Even though we called home three- four times a day we still didn't spend the full 30. We also got our oyster cards. The oyster card will let you ride the subway, bus (which they call coach), train and the clippers. We also walked around Victoria station which was just a few blocks from our Hotel. We ended our evening on the Second Day by seeing the Broadway show Wicked

England is 7 hours ahead of us so it took me some time to adjust to the change actually about four days my sister adjust after the first day. The second day we went and seen the Towers, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace and St Pauls Cathedral (Princes Diana was married here)

We also had Tea and scones at the department store called Harrads Department store. this is oldest department store in England

We had a great time. Next day we are headed to York a 13th Century City and we are going by train.

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Happy Birthday Ady

Ady's birthday is this weeks, so is her dads. Everyone has so much going on this week that we decided to celebrate early. I hope that they both have a good birthday week.
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May

I can't




believe I have let this month get away without a single post. So here it is in a big post. Lots going on this month. Aarons errands, Checked out the Little Chocolate-tiers, socker games, dance, Stockton's birthday. visit to Aaron's and Laramie's graves and of course graduations. Our Gavin made the advance socker team congratulations to Gavin! I think Stockton pretty much summed our month up





























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